

“I'm a comedian, you fool!”
Before he hit it big, Takeshi Kitano got his start apprenticing with comedy legend Fukami of Asakusa. But as his star rises, his mentor's declines.
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Status
Released
Original Language
JA

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko, processed seafood products, in his poor Korean-Japanese community exploiting his employees.


Inoue Masayoshi
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.